Getting started with Ansible using Vagrant

Vagrant is an wonderful tool if you have a need to provision throw away development envs every now and then. I usually use vagrant to provision vm locally for any new poc that I am working on and once all looks good locally, I can choose to throw away the local setup or archive it for future use.

Ansible is an python based, agent less, automation engine which is use to automate configuration management across various hosts remotely and securely.

Since vagrant gives me the option of spinning off throw away vms on the fly, its a good…